Live Event Production Company San Francisco

Westwave AV plans, builds and runs corporate events across San Francisco and the Bay Area. One crew handles the video, audio, lighting, staging and the live stream, from the site visit through to load-out. If you need equipment on its own, our audio visual rental services page covers delivery, setup and pickup.

Event Video Production

Capture your event with high-quality video production from Westwave AV. Our team handles all stages, from filming to editing, ensuring a polished result that aligns with your brand. This service perfectly complements our audio visual rental services, providing a seamless, integrated experience for your event.

Live Streaming

Engage both in-person and virtual audiences with high-quality live streaming solutions from Westwave AV. Our professional live streaming services, paired with our comprehensive audio visual rental services, provide smooth, real-time broadcasting for corporate events, trade shows, and conferences. We ensure seamless connections and interaction for remote attendees, with high-definition streaming technology that makes virtual guests feel as if they’re right there with you. From presentations to live Q&A sessions, Westwave AV’s integrated audio visual solutions guarantee your event reaches viewers everywhere, creating an engaging and interactive experience for all.

Stage Design

Create a stunning focal point with professional stage design. At Westwave AV, our team collaborates with you to craft a custom layout and setup that not only enhances presentations but also optimizes visibility for your audience. With our full range of audio visual rental services, we integrate lighting, sound, and visual elements to create a cohesive and impactful stage presence. Whether it’s for a keynote speaker, panel discussion, or performance, we ensure that your stage design stands out, elevating the overall atmosphere and ensuring your speakers and performers are showcased at their best.

Scenic Design

Transform any venue with our expert scenic design services. From custom backdrops to lighting integration, Westwave AV can build immersive environments that enhance event aesthetics, aligning with your brand and theme to captivate your audience.

What a Westwave production covers

We take corporate events in San Francisco and the Bay Area from the first site visit through to load-out. That covers projection and video, audio, lighting, staging and scenic build, and the live stream for everyone watching from somewhere else. One crew, one plan, one number to call on the day.

We work directly with in-house event teams, and we work behind agencies as the technical half of someone else’s show. Either way the production is staffed and run by our own crew, not subcontracted out on the morning.

What does a production company do that renting the same equipment does not?

Renting gets equipment to the venue. Production covers everything around it: a site visit before the date, a plan for how the event runs cue by cue, a crew on headset through the show, and one person to call when a presenter’s laptop will not hand off to the screen. Most of what goes wrong at an event is not the equipment failing, it is the handoffs between people, and a crew is what covers those.

Can you run an event where part of the audience is watching remotely?

Yes. That is a hybrid event, and it is a different build from a room-only show: cameras and a switcher, a separate audio feed mixed for the stream rather than for the room, and someone whose whole job is watching what the remote audience actually sees. We have run panels with around fifty people in the room and several thousand on the stream. There is more on our hybrid event AV production page.

Can you take the same show to more than one city?

Yes. We build the package once and repeat it, so the second city is not a fresh design and the third is quicker again. YALCON: On Tour ran in San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis and Washington DC on one production package: projection, staging, lighting, confidence monitors and three technical roles travelling with it.

How are you priced?

Every event is quoted, because the number moves with the room, the crew size and the schedule far more than with the equipment list. Our page on what moves an AV quote in San Francisco sets out what actually changes the price, so you can read any bid you receive, including ours, and see where the money goes.

Do you also rent equipment on its own?

Yes. If you have your own crew and only need gear, our audio visual rental services page covers delivery, setup and pickup. It is a separate service from a production and it is quoted separately.